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Picasso completes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, later dated by museums to 1907

In 1907 Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, a date museums use for the canvas now at MoMA. In the causal graph this event strengthens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

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In 1907 Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, a date museums use for the canvas now at MoMA. It is not yet a public museum door and not a supernatural break with all prior art.

Context

Studio cubism is a shared 1908–12 labour with Braque stored nearby. Appropriation of African sculptural form is a separate minority-rights row.

Pablo Picasso is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Visual-culture path. High confidence on museum dating.

A studio canvas is not Guernica.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pablo Picasso

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.6 · verified

    He painted the 1907 canvas. Later museums made it a public school object. African-source controversy is a separate worsening row.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactPicasso completes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, later dated by museums to 1907
    2. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 July 1907 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Better

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.25 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Smarthistory — Les Demoiselles d’AvignonSmarthistory · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.MoMA — Les Demoiselles d’AvignonMuseum of Modern Art · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

MoMA’s object page and Smarthistory independently date the canvas to 1907.

Established: 1907 Demoiselles as a Picasso canvas later publicly dated by MoMA. Not established: that 1907 already had 1939 ticket counts, or that he uniquely invented all modern art.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPablo Picasso
  2. contributed toFactPicasso completes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, later dated by museums to 1907
  3. strengthensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Picasso completes Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, later dated by museums to 1907. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/pic-demoiselles-1907

https://factrail.ai/facts/pic-demoiselles-1907

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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